Curtains drawn, door shut. From the outside it's easy to assume the worst, lump this one in with Holloway's hardcore Irish boozers and walk past. Fear not though, step inside and you'll be hit by a glorious pub interior: wall...

A little locals boozer that's had a plush makeover, though it's still the sort of pub that puts Teletext on for the Racing results. One for the locals, albeit one with a rather more welcoming air than the nearby pubs on the...

After a big refurbishment we’ve just seen that this pub has reopened as the upmarket-sounding Oak & Pastor. Certainly all traces of the Drum and Monkey have been entirely removed. Some beautiful tiling advertising...

Our two visits here in ten years have both been truly awful, but we've spied the fact there has been a paint job and a change of emphasis. It doesn't bode well though, with some of the pub renamed to T.O.C and what appears to...

Perched halfway up the hill to Highgate, the Whittington Cat, not to be confused with the nearby Whittington Stone, is a jolly, traditional Irish pub. Unlike many of the other Irish pubs in the area, it doesn't make a big deal...

Tufnell Park and Archway don't immediately spring to mind as homes for live music, but consider the Irish acts in the Holloway Road's pubs, the rock revivalism of the Dirty Water Club and the indie bands in the Archway Tavern....

The previous incarnation of the Star was a particularly unwelcoming boozer, but a change of ownership a couple of years back gave the place a new lease of life. Even better, the change hasn't transformed it into a...

This is a full-on gastropub, but one that blends in seamlessly with the large Victorian houses of the area. This was an early convert of the gastro cause, so no surprises to see the spartan look of lots of natural light and...